经典电影台词:《辛德勒的名单》
什么是权力
酒过三巡，辛德勒(Shindler)与纳粹军官阿蒙哥特(Amon Goeth)到阳台闲聊。平常，Goeth经常无缘无故开枪射击，乱杀无辜，他认为，随意杀人就是权力。Shindler却说，“正义”才是能让一个人操生杀大权的原因，宽恕才是权力。——看看Shindler的原话是怎么说的：
Goeth: You know, I look at you. I watch you, and you're never drunk. Oh, that's...that's real control. Control is power. That's power. Is that why they fear us? We have the fucking power to kill, that's why they fear us. They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily. A man commits a crime, he should know better. We have him killed, and feel good about it. Or we kill him ourselves and we feel even better.
Shindler: That's not power, though. That's justice. It's different than power. Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Goeth: You think that's power?
Shindler: That's what the emperors had. A man stole something; he's brought in before the emperor. He throws himself down on the ground, he begs for mercy. He knows he's going to die. And the emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Shindler: That's power, Amon.
【重点讲解】
look at，固定搭配的词组，意思是看、观察。drunk，喝醉了的。Goeth说Shindler从不喝醉，显示了超强的控制力。进而他发出感慨：控制力就是权力。犹太人怕我们，就是因为我们有生杀予夺的大权，我们能随意决定一个犹太人的生死。arbitrarily，武断地，任意地。
接着Goeth举了个例子。比如对一个犯了罪的人，如果我们杀了他，我们会感觉快乐;如果是我们亲手杀了他，就更有快感了。commit a crime，犯罪，可以当作一个固定搭配来记忆。
Shindler却提出了不同的见解。他认为，正义(justice)使我们有权杀死一个犯了罪的人。真正的权力是，我们有充足的理由去处死他，而我们却不去这样做。every，每一个，全部的，引申为充分的;justification，认为有理，认为正当，理由。他解释说，就像小偷乞求(beg for)宽恕，皇帝原谅(pardon)了他，让这个毫无价值的人(worthless)继续苟且偷生，皇帝(emperor)们拥有的就是权力而不是正义。throw oneself on the ground，匍匐在地。
再做些文字外的注释，以便更透彻地理解这段话。Shindler话外的意思是，“权力”是存在于人与人的关系中的，可以使用，可以执行;“正义”却不是一个人或一群人与生俱来的，它是一种参照的标准，是独立于人之外的。当一个人或一群人以正义的化身自居的时候，这个世界也就危险了。
《辛德勒的名单》经典台词集锦
1、Amon Goeth: They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?
阿蒙·高斯：他们在你身上投射了一道咒符，你知道吗，犹太人。当你和他们很亲近地工作时，就像我，你这么想。他们有这样的能量。就像是病毒。有些我的人就被这种病毒感染了。他们应该被同情，而不是惩罚。他们应该接受治疗因为这样才能像斑疹伤寒症一样真实。我一直是这么认为的。这和金钱有关系吗?嗯?
2、Amon Goeth: The truth, Helen, is always the right answer.
阿蒙·高斯：真相是，海伦，总是正确的答案。
3、Itzhak Stern: How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?
伊萨克·斯特恩：你昨晚抽了多少烟?
4、Oskar Schindler: Too many.
奥斯卡·辛德勒：太多了。
5、Itzhak Stern: For every one you smoke, I smoke half.
伊萨克·斯特恩：你抽的每一支烟，我就抽了一半。
6、Amon Goeth: Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.
阿蒙·高斯：今天就是历史。今天将会被永远记住。很多年以后年轻人将会对今天充满好奇。今天就是历史并且你们就是其中的一部分。六百年前，当他们到处散播对黑死亡的谴责，所谓的大卡西米(Casimir the Great)，告诉犹太人他们应该到克拉科夫去。他们来了。他们带着财产来到这座城市。他们定居下来。他们掌握权利。他们在商业、科学、教育和艺术上兴盛起来。没有他们带来的东西就没有他们的繁荣。六个世纪以来，这儿是犹太人的克拉科夫。到今晚为止，这六百年将会是谣言。他们从来没有发生过。今天就是历史。
8、Oskar Schindler: Look, All you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you?
